Globe, PLDT on Internet Peering Protocol talks

Faster and internet access to more people increases access to opportunities by all

From inquirer press reader
October 5, 2015

                                         Traffic mabagal, internet mabagal progress mabagal pati ba PLDT? Or simply does not care. It just wants to get bigger and more profitable?

EVP of PLDT and CEO of ePLDT  Ernesto Alberto announced that PLDT and Globe are on talks re Internet Peer Protocol that will help make internet access faster.  Earlier, PLDT agreed with govt DOST to provide fiber optic link to  Phil Open Internet Exchange or PHopenIX

PLDT has also added another rack for DOST at ePLDT's vitro center for third access to PHopenIX.  The arrangement says this arrangement gives faster access to govt websites that is why PLDT is in talk with Globe.

Earlier, PLDT was adamant in this peering talks.  But we can read between the lines, that it is going to be hard battle to have PLDT give up its dominance.

Earlier PLDT in 2014 rejected the proposal from Globe and even draft proposal form NTC to have ISP Peering.  We thought FVR destroyed the PLDT monopoly when it allowed other Telcos to come in....Medyo yabang at monopoly giant stance..

From BWorld - PLDT and Globe on peering talks

Peering Exchanges

Analysis and proposed solutions on slow internet speed in the Philippines ( 7 out of 10 Filipinos have no internet access)

Philippines  September 27, 2015

From Rappler Technology Features

Why is internet speed slow in the Philippines?  The answer does not look simple.  As with other problems, the problem's causes are systemic

This is featured in Rappler and a result of interview with Bayani Lara, Supervising Science Research Specialist at the Department of Science and Technology's Advance Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) and part of the team that runs the Philippine Open Internet Exchange (PHOpenIX).

1  Lack of IP peering as between Globe and Smart, that means that in order for the two system to talk, the system has to get out of the country and say be rerouted to Hong Kong (this jibes with an earlier analysis that PLDT does this)

From Reddit - How PLDT keeps internet speed deliberately slow

2.  The solution would be to have a central internet exchange, but the backbone owner says that this would give undue advantage to small players.